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The user of the above account has recently been involved in actions deemed inappropriate for the World of Warcraft by the Support Staff of Blizzard Entertainment. After a thorough investigation of the recent Arena Season this account has been found to have engaged in inappropriate activities that have helped the team as a whole achieve the current arena team rating and associated personal rating.

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I'm curious, loads of people moan that people who boost ruin the ladder. I don't see how they ruin the ladder, if anything they make it more active for the better players, having people doing gladiator boosts means there are constantly good players playing. Without the boosts i'm pretty positive most people wouldn't play ladder anywhere nearly as actively as they currently do, so the boosts do nothing but increase activity.

I guess i understand that you might feel cheated out of a gladiator spot, but at the end of the day you weren't good enough to play consistently enough/beat enough high rated teams to reach the rating you need for your title.

Banning people because of it seems silly, it's against tos sure but to me it's a positive for arena.

I'm curious, loads of people moan that people who boost ruin the ladder. I don't see how they ruin the ladder, if anything they make it more active for the better players, having people doing gladiator boosts means there are constantly good players playing. Without the boosts i'm pretty positive most people wouldn't play ladder anywhere nearly as actively as they currently do, so the boosts do nothing but increase activity.

I guess i understand that you might feel cheated out of a gladiator spot, but at the end of the day you weren't good enough to play consistently enough/beat enough high rated teams to reach the rating you need for your title.

Banning people because of it seems silly, it's against tos sure but to me it's a positive for arena.

Yes, it's a great thing when Vileroze makes 15 spots in the ladder gladiator running FMP.